Smoking like one of the old ones. Union Pacific pusher engine, Medicine Bow, Wyoming.

 

Lex Anteinternet: March 24, 1941. The "Wild West Cowboys"

Lex Anteinternet: March 24, 1941. Reversal of fortunes in North Afr...: 

The last of New York's "Wild West Cowboys", mounted men who rode in front of the city's urban freight trains in Manhattan to clear pedestrians, made his last ride. After this date, the mounted riders were retired from that service, there being at that time only one left.

Railhead: Retired steam engine, Rawlins Wyoming

Railhead: Retired steam engine, Rawlins Wyoming: An old thread updated.

Blog Mirror: Virtual Railfan

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Lex Anteinternet: November 23, 1920. Empires

Lex Anteinternet: November 23, 1920. Empires: 

November 23, 1920. Empires

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Anchorage Alaska, which had been founded in 1915, was incorporated.

Anchorage was, and is, as the name indicates a port city.  And today its a large one, much like any other large port city, all of which have a certain universal character.  It was also, however, right from the onset a railhead, which made it all the more important.

Lex Anteinternet: October 5, 1920. World Series begins, Russo Polish War ends, Railway reopens

Lex Anteinternet: October 5, 1920. World Series begins, Russo Polis...: 

October 5, 1920. World Series begins, Russo Polish War ends, Railways reopen.

 The 1920 World Series started on this day, in 1920.

Crowd in Ebbets Field.

Cleveland won the first game, 1 to 0.

New York City Mayor John Hylan throws ball to open World Series at Ebbets Field

Poland and the Soviet Union signed an armistice to end the fighting between their countries.  Fighting would stop on October 18.

In Egypt, the American University in Cairo opened.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, a new railroad opened up.  Or rather a rebuilt raiilway.

The opening of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway was attended, as all such things were, by the senior British official.

The line had originally been a narrow gauge railway, but  the British reconstructed it to a new, more useful, wider gauge.

While it has been closed from time to time, updates and reconstructions have meant that the rail line remains in use today.

Derailed Union Pacific Grain (corn) train, Bosler Wyoming. August 22, 2020.